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DISTURBERS of the PEACE: WRITERS on the OFFENSIVE (Zoom Course)

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Social Change
Kay Retzlaff offers this course which will look at six early twentieth (late nineteenth) century American writers who wielded their pens for social change.

Texts will be available online--no longer covered by copyright.

Week One:     Mark Twain
Week Two:     Kate Chopin
Week Three:  Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston
Week Four:    Charlotte Perkins Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell
Week Five:     Ernest Hemingway
Week Six:       Wrap-up   

This course has a limit of 24 registrants. If you are a member of another senior college, email smksenior2020@gmail.com and leave your name, email, phone number, and the name of your college. We wait two weeks before opening to other colleges. If there are openings, you will receive information on how to register.                         

Instructor: KAY RETZLAFF
Back by popular demand is Kay Retzlaff, who has taught numerous classes for PVSC, including the most recent, "Poe in the Time of Corona." Kay is Professor of English at UMA.
If you have not yet taken a course from Kay, now is the time!

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